Every Trump indictment brings us closer to the rematch America really doesn’t need

In a fresh blow to any hopes the 2024 GOP primary can focus on competing visions for America’s future, special counsel Jack Smith just dumped fresh charges against Donald Trump over his bid to overturn the 2020 results that might as well be designed and timed to rally Republicans behind him.

This case is on top of two others, one relating to the classified docs plus Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s Stormy Daniels hush-money prosecution, as well the expected Georgia indictment over his 2020-vote hijinks in that state.

We don’t want to dive deep into any of the charges here. The key is that none of it is cut-and-dried (the docs one is serious, but raises issues of selective prosecution; Bragg’s case is laughable).

Heck, we’ve slammed Trump repeatedly over his 2020 denialism and shameful Capitol Riot record, but Smith’s charges largely rely on new and questionable legal theories.

Above all: In the context of the Justice Department’s evident drive to quash any serious Hunter Biden investigation — and the failure to name a special counsel to handle it, despite the rising evidence implicating President Joe Biden in possible misconduct — most Republicans see it all as political vendettas, not a search for justice.

So, understandably, every indictment pushes up Trump’s poll numbers for the 2024 primaries.

Worse, it starves other candidates of oxygen: When the news is all Trump-Trump-Trump, how do the likes of Sen. Tim Scott get any attention at all?

Meanwhile, the Biden family scandals don’t seem to be denting Joe’s drive for the Democratic nomination, either — though there it seems more an issue of the party establishment ensuring there are no alternatives except RFK Jr. and the usual fringe candidates. (Plus, liberal media largely bury or downplay the news, at best.)

So both nominees could wind up being crooks, thanks to the modern hyperpartisan landscape — with each side refusing to face the facts about their own guy.

Argh: The frontrunners in both parties should be debating wages, grocery and gas prices, growth — things that matter the most to voters across the spectrum.

America needs a campaign centered on the future, not the past — yet the nation edges ever closer to a Trump-Biden rematch that next to no one wants.

So forgive us for the occasional scream into the wind.